Inner Smile

Inner Smile Meditation

The Inner Smile is a true smile for all parts of the body that will produce a high grade of energy that can heal. A genuine smile transmits loving energy to our organs and glands, which has the power to warm and heal. The Inner Smile has a close relationship with the thymus gland, the seat of the life-force chi energy. When we are under emotional stress, the thymus gland is the first to be affected. It produces T-cells which recognize abnormal cells and destroys them.

Taoist sages say that when you smile, your organs release a honey-like secretion that nourishes the whole body. When you are angry, fearful or under stress, toxic secretions are released that blocks the energy channels and settles in the organs. Smiling into your organs causes them to expand, become softer and moister, and more efficient.

The practice begins in the eyes. The eyes are linked to the autonomic nervous system and are a primary organ that receives emotional signals. By relaxing your eyes you can relax your whole body and free your energy for the practice.

INNER SMILE

PREPARE: Lie down or sit with sit bones at the edge of your chair: men should allow scrotal sac to hang free. Right palm on top of left with tongue placed on palate or near the teeth.

Relax the forehead and picture a radiating smiling face in front of you. Feel that smiling energy in your eyes and allow that energy to flow to the midpoint between the eyebrows letting it flow into your nose and cheeks. Relax the facial skin, going deep inside the face muscles. Let it warm your whole face like sunshine. Let it flow into the mouth and lift up the corners of your lips.

As you go through the meditation, place your hands on each organ and smile down on them.

SUNNING

Stand outside and face the sun. If you wear glasses, remove them. Close your eyes. Let the bright healing light of the sun shine down on your third eye, the place between your eyebrows. (Do not stare at the sun, even with your eyes closed). If you are unable to expose yourself to the sun, rub your palms together until they are warm. Once heated up, close your eyes and place your palms over them. Imagine a beautiful, bright, and warm golden color. Let its warmth and brightness penetrate your body just as if it were the sun.

Feel the warmth and let the light shine and fill your brain. Allow this warmth and the light to travel down your spine, energizing each vertebra as it travels all the way to the coccyx.

Let the light and warmth penetrate from the outer parts of the brain into the middle of your head where your hypothalamus resides. This gland is about the size of an almond but plays a very important role in linking our outside world to our inside world.

Now let this bright white healing light come down to a place just below the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland. This gland secretes the hormones that allows your body to maintain homeostasis in the body. Let the bright white healing light send its energy into the pituitary, lighting all aspects. Once you have filled these two glands with the healing white light, let it travel to the pineal gland that is located just behind the pituitary. This gland is the key to our sleep/wake cycle.

Take a breath while the light connects these three glands. Enjoy and give gratitude.

Once you are full with the bright healing light of the sun, bring it down to your thyroid located in the middle of your throat. Your thyroid sends the metabolism signals in your body. Let the bright white light ease the tension in your throat, and energize the thyroid. Breathe and stay there with the light.

Next, draw the light down to the thymus gland just below your collar bones in the middle of your sternum. This is your immune stimulating gland. Let the bright white light warm you. Breathe.

Draw the bright white light down into the adrenals located just on top of your kidneys. These glands regulate our stress coping hormones. Let them feel the peaceful and warm energy of the bright white light until it spills over to the pancreas, located just above your naval and underneath the stomach on the left side of your rib cage. The pancreas secretes hormones that allow our body to harvest its energy from the food that we eat. Be thankful for the work it does.

Lastly, let the light travel down to your sacred reproductive glands, the ovaries or the testes, and let the light shine where we summon our creative energy. Smile and breathe.

Now turn around and allow that light to come the center of the back of your head. Follow the same pattern, bringing the bright white light down the back of the body, stopping at each endocrine gland until the glands experience the full healing power of the sun.

Open your eyes. Look around you. You will find the world much sharper and richer in color.